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j cf,whu:h bad, hdwyveci been dbproq
f portio*»l!y t»real during the late war-
The demand* for t%> public service*
rincjwling an adequate provision for
t‘i# interest, and gradual* but rapijjHlre
,-,r«„iion of thr pabtia debt; required
tbe retention of a considerable amount
of internal taxes on those objects which
Would be a bear it, and the collection of
,Vw* *' n r ‘ h ’ ch b * the u ** x ° P ~
prcs expensive—whilst a just
to tlv: convenience jnd comfort
r*f the people demanded a repeal of those
duties kuist'productive and most obnox
ious. ActaVcrc therefore passed, tp
continue the existing double duties till
Jqnc next; .to continue the duty on salt;
to contiriul the duties on ? stamps and
on the rt fining of sugar ; t ■■ continue a
c t tax of three millions fur one year
t ; on, tbe mwk of collecting
it : to repeat’ the increased duties on
certain manufactures ; to repeal the ta*
on bouse hold furniture ; to red uce the
duties oh hcenses to retailers, See. Be-
these acts respecting revenue and
com me ret, there were passed laws to
regulate the commerce between the
UnW r l-States ana (treat Britain accord
UV r *>the Con mention on* that subject,
ran act which gave rise to much un
necessary
back of duties im spirits distilled, and
sugar refined within .the United States ;
to’ regulate the currency of the gold
coins of foreign countries, and several
acts for establishing, repairing add per
-1 fccting ligfot hou i; c?. ■>
We come now to the measure most
discussed, rho t wished on the one hand,
most dreadvd ou the other—the tets to
establish a National Bank. This meas
ure hns never assumed that magnitude
ir our view, in which it has been regard*
« e d by others who viewed it through a
different medium. We hope ffroth it
good effects; we have liUteTear of bad.
Twenty years ago, the establishment of
such a Bank would hare, been justly
deprfecateoasa monstrous instruments
of power, which, improperly used, would
he fatal to our liberties. ’ But, the times
arc changed ; a bank atmosphere, if the
expression be allowed, is created since
that time, in the midst of which the
oo Stations of this institution will be as
innoxious, and we hope as salutary and
* vevifmg, as ire#h air admitted into a
mass of the same ‘Che act in
question was adopted by CoftgreSsfWitJj
a two fold view ; to facilitate the fiscal
operations of'the government, and to
• restore soundness and uniformity of
value to the present circulating medium.
Essentially connected with the latter
object was the resolution passed at the
close of the session, to facilitate the
collection of the revenue of the United
States m the lawful money thereof, by
authorizing the Trcasqry Department
to resort to such measures within its
power, as, with the aid 1 of a National
Bank, will best contribute to the restora
tion of specie pay ments, that great desi
deratum in our political system. Time
is the test by which the wisdom and
efficacy of these measures w ill be best
tried. • • -
The provision for future, events, in
pursuance of the maxim, consecrated by
the wisdom of ages, which teaches us
iu Peace to prepare*®: war, has been
such as to shew, that the disastrous
expedience of the first year of the late
war fias not bew lost | upon us. Among
the measure* of this character, we have
pleasure in mentioning the acts to ap
propriate “a million of dollars for ord
nance stores, repairing and completing
fortifications, &c. ; for organizing the
general staff of the army, and making
further provision for,the army ; for the
gradual but ample increase oi the navy ;
for more efficiently applying the annual
sum for procuring arms for the militia /
for regulating that proportion of mili
tia field officers to a regimtnt ; author
izing the employment of a skilful assist
ant to the corps of engineers. These
together with the aces having relation
to rtmuneiation, gratuities and pay
ment* lor service* m the late war, can
not fail to he felt in due tune, in the
increased efficiency of our army and
Tiavy,” whenever the time arrives when
we shall- again hate occasion for their
services. ‘ - ti V : ’ •
Various acts of a ‘miscellaneous na
ture were passed during the session,
highly umporunt toour genera! inter-.
eits. Prominent these m&y. be
reckoned the act *o a new state
into the Union, to be formed of the
present territory of Indiana.- On this
measure an extraordinary and gratify
ing” unanimity £■ ;vadcd Congress, par
ticularly the pßuiar branch of it, ( i«
which theny warp only tines and us-alien
iL 7ZFZT,
p acts relative to cyidence itfcaxes
of liaturalizctioft, and directing all the
I*ijrs oil the subject of naturalization <
be printed and- distributed to public
agents throughout the United’ State**
for general information -—Among other
&SB of a miscellaneous character mv
be reckoned the several annual ipprp
priation laws, the act supplememary to
the act regulating the trade With the
Indian tribes a the act for regulating
the post office establishment, See.
JThc respecting the public lan la
$f a public as well as of a private riatiwe
were numerous, and honorable to the
zeal and industry of the cOmm ttee who
• ‘fk- - W jL
had charge of that subject. Thejr arc
too many t 6 be particularly named, if
we expect that respecting the settlors*
on the lart.ls of the United States, fto
eKcmpt in a degree the im ijtthseized
settles from the rigors of a farmer flw#
U'fder Which the Prs-dd -n.’s proclama
tion of December last was issued* ltfs
act supplementary.- to.tiie act f*r hi il
ly settling the contested Yt >o land
claims ; the act extending the time f-u*
issuing and locating military land v ir
rants ; the act authorising the survey
of two millions of acres of land, in heu
of that quantity heretofore authored
to be surveyed inthe. territory of
Michigan» as military bounty bnd*»scc.
The act to change the mode of com
pensation of the hut fibers, is not at this
diy unknown to many of oyr readers, it
has been attacked with a zeal wRh an
apparent ivdttoaccption, and in some
cases, with a reprehensible acrimony#
Which have made it sufficiently notori-*
ous. What else was done in relation to
the establishment or increase of com
pensation t 6 officers of government, may
be comprized within a small compass J
s the fof&Cers authorized by the
general staff bill, and by the b!l to pay
fur the property lost, Stc* during the
war, acts were passed to continue in
fofee the acts fixing the present salaries
of the officers of government ; increase
the compensation of the inferior officers
of the customs ; to appoint aq addition
al accountant ofthe treasury; to increase
the salary ofthe register of the treasu
ry ; to increase the compensation of the
clerks and chaplains of the two Houses
Os Congress ; to increase the compen
sation of the superintendants of the
manufactories of public arms at Spring
field and Hatper’s Ferry.
We have cursorily run over ail the
acts of a public nature worthy of parti
cular notice in so general a View. Ma
ny and important, the reader will dis
cover were the measures ol the session,
beyond * those of any preceding one in
•late years. The thanks of the nation are
due to the members both Houses, for
their unwearied exertions in the public
service We are not, however, dispo
sed to deny* that many subjects were
hot acted on, which might have betn,
and sortie, perhaps, which ought to have
been. Such is the fate of all human
exertions. So much is never accom
plished as to leave nothing undone* >
• A view of those subjects which have
escaped the attention of Congress, or
the eonsiderapbn of which did not result
in any final decision, is reserved for a
fr* „
ATHENS.
Thursday, Junk 6-
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Ncto-Tork, May 18.
By the Betsey from Jamaica* we learn,
reports had beep received there, by way
of Panama, on the Main, that admiral
Brown, with the Buenos Ayres fleet had
been in the Pacific ocean, and made a
great number of prices .’ that he had
assailed and taken the fortress of Xun
yaguil, on the coast of New Grenada ;
and that* emboldened by these succes
ses, he had penetrated with hrs forces in
to the interior, where lie had been de
feated and made prisoner.
Latest from —. J The shipJa.
cob Jones, had arri yed at Boston, from ?
Batavia .On the 4th April, tti signt of St?
ff elenat the Jhcob Jones was boarded by
Wt*officer from the English gun brig
iiephyr, one of’ the cruizing vessel s sta-r
doned off tnere; tiie officer stated* that
Jonraparte was in good health, und *p
.larefivly contented with bus situation*
- ‘Hi v ■•. :• T \*i- w .
Ex.net 0j z Untr—lcui
Id Bsrl&iloes. and burnt upwards of 60
killed ali the whites'! hey
could find* A detachment ofSQOO men,
consisting the troops n6w here, em
bark for that island this daf ; they will
soon be put under, as Barhsdoes is free
of woods and almost a perfect level jj^
R 1 V , ’5L£ Pail,A!>Bl*!lU* ‘M%f 13.
;* By captain Shane, of the Friendship,
/arrived yesterday ,J we have received
the €*«rracoa Courant of th#j 20th of
April —( the latest Jr—from which the
following articles are copied.
’ Cciuiacoa, April 25.
By the sloop Louisa, Gapt. Turner,
froiti the city of St* Domingo, we learn
,it was the prevailing opinion there that
Bolivar intended to attack that place.-**
Two of the vessels belonging to his
squadron captured a Spanish schooner *
off the Punta Salinas, where they came
19 ahehor, and landed a small party,
who took the priest* prhtmer ; iu the
time spme of the crew of the
enptmed schooner making thoir escape,
proceeded overland to the city, and
gave information of the landing of the *
patriots ; the consequence was that an
embargo was tmmediatdy laiclon all
vessels in the harbour, und every pre
p:iration made, to receive the enemy
A French of war. of -2 guns, arri
ved olf the city on the2ist uf.Matr.h, to
cruize against Chri’stophe, nnd reported
that two frigates had also sailed for the
sane purpose- It would appear that
Fetion will not be molested, but for
what rta* on does net appear ; the sloop
fell in with one of his men of war, of in
ferior force, without attempting any
thing against boats were tecu to
pass several timet torn lire one to the
other* ‘ i
The ‘Washington f£, commodore
Chauncey, arrived at Annapolis on the
27th ult. r\ 6 days from Boston, to take
Mr. Pinkney to Europe. Vessels that
came, up the [bay in company with her
report that ?he sails astonishingly fust,
leaving every thing with ease; fe
\ Augusta Gazettes
Extract of a hotter jrem D* C. Dc Fo~
resi t £sf. a respectable Arne.nan
. ehant s os Buenos Ajrres. to fits
ifrthis citjy received hj tkt Bern•
$~' } s : || •
<l last respects to you were un
der date of Nuv- 3 • since then the
Bueno! {Ayres army m J’eru s has been
entirely defeated ; and although we have
peace and quietness here/ 1 am afraid
that the want of union wiH put off lur
years the desireir independence of the
country. . Our physical force, as well
as our military means are fully compe
tent to the defeating all the attempts
of Spam to subjugate the country ; but
we are unaccustomed to self govern
ment, and possess but >ery partially
indted the stubborn virtue ancf deter
mined patriotism of tne North Ameri
cans.—‘■However the country must and
will be all
the .{follies of its inhabitants who are
rapidly increasing in numbers* and by
their defeats even, are learning the ait
of war **
• Vc& r
Foa THE CAZETtE,
•
Mr . Editor ,
, In your useful paper we hnve es
says on religion, on law, oivpolitics, fcec.
but very little medical information.—
Could you by some means or other pro
cure us some medical essays might
be useful? I have s>t*n directions in
Almanacks and newapapers, prescribing
cheap and easy remadies for some very
unmanageable disorders, I s wjsh you
would find out and publish a cure for
the hystericks. This disease appears
to me t© have become a prevailing epi
demic, and unless something can be.
done, to prevent Us progrtjs there is no
calculating the mischievous consequen
ces which may result from it.
1 am the more concerned on this sub
ject, sir, because I think 1 see very dan
gerous symptoms of it m my own family,
indeed my dear wife Mrs. Prattle, has
been afiteted, poor good soul, with this
complaint fbr, many years', Somet rmts
She has the laughing hystericks, some
times the weeping hystencks * and, my
dear sir, between you and me (and
1 would not wish it u> go she
seems to me, at times, to have a >sn<V!l
I touch of what might bp called the scold*
I ing hystericks.
. All this, however, f have considered
as of no great consequence. £>he gets
3#c& and she gets well; she gets do;wn
and she gels up- ;he ge».s in and she
fcu cfft tgtii, , n l. tfcre Hf*
about it. Natbing of a serious nalurf
follows- Perhaps about twenty dollar*
a year to Doctor Pillbox for h*rtmorn>
and drops, and pills, powders, and
and galiypots, and visits and cadis, and
all that ; but thesfe I consider as little?
and very common, and so say*
toothing about them
But for about auyear past Mrs. Prattlo
seems to be affected w*th anew and ve
ry dangerous and troublesome species
*of this disease. Ido pot indeed pre
tend to say, on my own judgment, ("for
lam no physician,J whether she is ari
fectetf with a new disease, or wliethsfh
it be only a mote advanced stage of the
♦ld disorder, but this thhth I koh .r, that
the old symptoms often accompany the
new. Ido not know by what name your
great learned Doctors who are Well ac
quainted with Heathen tireek, might
call my wife’s complaint, but in plain
English, 1 call it the laying- hysteric*? p
and really, sir, it is the very worst spe~
cies <|f hysterical aTecMon i have ever
known. * Je/ • % *.*’ - t 5..
In common cases when the paroxism
is coming on, my poor dear looks rather
melancholy. She goes to her trunk,
cupboard*or chamber, and immediately:
comes back In extreme uneasiness te»
buy something* and if she does not. im*
mediately get what she happens to warn,
all the other symptoms speedily appear,
the last, which I have no
wish to mention aguin if I can help it
,// I mark t6d, with painful attention the
growing symptoms of this malady—#
Tjiey are rt ally'-’ alarming. About a
yearc#go, when she was first taken \ji
this way, the purchase of ten or twelve,
dollars worthywould generally relieve
her for the but lateriy, sir,'slu
is not only much more frequently taken,,
but it takes from fifty to a hundred dol
lars worth tp bring her to her tight
mind again, and what is the strangest cf
all is this, that things seem to have va
l ie only wnile she is buying them, a*
soon as they are bought they have In**
ail their charms* She perhaps take*
them home but takes no care of them
afterwards. «- ;
Another very afflicting circumstances
attending the dfsoider in its. presenC
stage is, that the very things that used
to relieve her, are now the greatest pro*
footers of the disease. Formerly, whtik
she had nothing more than the laughing
and crying hysttnoks, Stc if I took her
out into company a .little ahe generally
recovered and came home quite well ;
but now, sir : if I take her to see any
of her neighbors she is sure to come
home With a most dreadful fit of the
buying hystericus. She has seen some
thing or other that she wants, and mus”
have, and there is no doing without it
a day iongef. Or if she happens to ga
near a store she is certain to be
taken with a hysterical paroxism that
neither pill nor powder can in the least
alleviate. She must buy, or see. gots
home and isconhnad lor a day or two.
and is as inconsolable as I would be ! f .
I had heard of the death of a near rela
tion, who Was very rich.
But wdiat is worse than all the rest,
i have yet to mention tq you- This
Malady is most dreacUully infectious—-
And l have four fine daugHters-*-all in
tiieir teens—good looking girls, thougli
I say it, as any hereabout. Tom Couu-j
ter the merchant has been to sec Sally l
the eldest onetwo or three times. Biu
»f she should get into the same way that
her mother has been for this twelve-*
month past, he had better at home.!
And indeed I think that both she and!
Betsey have something of it now. t\
will tell you why I think so. Mr. Trun
dle the pedWr drove up, to, my house
the other day, and opened’ his finery on
us# Mrs* Prattle wanted to buy, and »ls
the young ladies wanted’ to buy, and to |
buy, and to buy. I thought to get off
by observing to Mr. Trundle that hi*
things were very nice and very cheap;
and I would be happy to accommodate?
Mrs- Prattle and the young ladies, hut
having made some small purchases late
ly which had required prompt payment
l was really not in fund* to any consider
able amount—that if he should be pas
sing the way spme other time, and
would have the goodness to call 1 might
perhaps be able to take a lew things
from him if my family sHihild not be
otherwise supplied.* Mr. Trundle it*
his turn very polite to be sure,but
hang bis politeness, l say, and observed
that it was nouiutter, he was uf>V> indeqcl/;
in the habU of doing %such things, but
as the ladies appeared tohe vci» anxious,,
us I had the character of u very punctu
al man, be hud no objection to
Wittoine a month or two and wourj
caii again for the money; I was about
to thunk the gentleman ler his kindnesn